Gougai! Gougai!

Beautiful Thorns, Chiho Saito's new manga featuring Juri, Shiori, and Ruka is now scanlated and ready for happy happy eyeballs! Download it in a zip here, or check it out in the gallery. Thank you everyone!! <3

Re: Saparmurat Niyazov is dead: the notable deaths thread.

satyreyes wrote:

June 13 - Tim Russert (Meet the Press host and one of the best journalists of our age)

Hey!

That's terrible.

Akio, you have nice turns of phrase, but your points aren't clear and you have no textual support. I can't give this a passing grade. ~ Professor Arisa Konno, Eng 1001 (Freshman Literature and Composition)

Re: Saparmurat Niyazov is dead: the notable deaths thread.

He was no great writer, but Jurassic Park, Sphere, and The Andromeda Strain were among my first forays into grownup books when I was a kid, so happy, if mediocre memories.

All hail Dangerous Science!

Akio, you have nice turns of phrase, but your points aren't clear and you have no textual support. I can't give this a passing grade. ~ Professor Arisa Konno, Eng 1001 (Freshman Literature and Composition)

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I'm glad you enjoyed my parody, Ragnarok and Yasha. It was that or the scene where the fat guy flees the facility in a hurricane after betraying his employers, only to run across a Michael Crichton with acidic saliva.

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Actually, I like his books up until a point. Sphere was good, Jurassic Park was good... but there's one that no one ever talks about that I think is really the best thing he's ever written. It's called Travels, and it's semi-autobiographical. A bunch of short observation-style pieces collected together in one work that really made an impact on me growing up. I wish I had that book now.

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I read a lot of his books in early middle school, Sphere being my favorite, and even though I didn't really care all that much for most of his newer stuff, it cannot really put a dent in the nostalgia I feel for his work. I am a complete weakling for nostalgia.